Wagner: Götterdämmerung (2-DVD) – Andreas Schager, Anja Kampe
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung (2-DVD) – Andreas Schager, Anja Kampe
Composer: Richard Wagner
Artists: Andreas Schager, Lauri Vasar, Johannas Martin Kränzle, Mika Kares, Anja Kampe, Mandy Fredrich, Violeta Urmana, Noa Beinart, Kristina Stanek, Anna Samuil, Evelin Novak, Natalia Skrycka, Anna Lapkovskaya, Staatskapelle Berlin
Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Director: Dmitri Tcherniakov
Video Format: NTSC 16:9
Sound Format: PCM Stereo / DTS 5.1
Region: All Regions
Language: German
Subtitles: German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Korean, Japanese
Number of Discs: 2
Studio: Unitel Edition
Release Date:
Run Time: 285 minutes
Wagner’s immense imagination reveals itself in the composer’s 16-hour Ring cycle, fully captivating worldwide audiences since its complete performance in 1876 in Bayreuth. Götterdämmerung is the concluding chapter of the monumental four-part opus, which Wagner conceived in the light of the revolution of 1848-49 and completed in 1874.
Christian Thielemann conducts a “velvety sound of unmatched beauty” (The Guardian), leading an extremely sophisticated production, with Tcherniakov’s direction and stage design meeting the highest technical standards, evolving in ever new, impressive spaces. The thematic and musical threads are intertwined in a highly artistic and complex manner.
“Tcherniakov, as usual, manages details on a level rarely seen in opera.” (The New York Times)
History
Götterdämmerung
Götterdämmerung composed between 1869-1874, is Richard Wagner’s grand finale of the Ring Cycle. The four operas in the series include Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), Siegfried and Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods).
A culmination of the dramatic and musical ideas set forth in the previous three works of the Ring is also a complete and monumental theatrical journey of its own with the saga’s complex ideas finding their full expression.
This epic drama ends in acts of betrayal, murder, vengeance and finally, the destruction of the world told in a complex plot.
Götterdämmerung presents a unique challenge for the lead tenor and soprano, performing a cathartic 15-minute narrative by Brünnhilde that is among the longest and most powerful unbroken vocal solos in the operatic repertory.
The Met’s production of Götterdämmerung in its 2018–19 season featured minimal otherworldly landscapes with digital imagery to achieve a modern interpretation of the composer’s masterpiece.
It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on August 17,1876 as part of the first complete performance of the Ring Cycle.
The Met’s landmark production, directed by Robert Lepage, premiered over the course of the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons. The DVD release of its Live in HD presentation won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording.
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